I'm gonna let you pick this week. What are you feeling like? Remember? Because I added a lot.
Are we feeling like an update? How's that looking?
Come on, let me check. Yeah, let's do an update.
Sometimes my updates are quite random.
Let's go with this one. This one's Vice.
February 12th, 2024. We're still getting updated.
It's from a little bit ago because we're now on the other side of the year.
This one is titled Neo-Nazi Music Show's Return to Europe.
I love Vice. I'm gonna love the return of the Neo-Nazis to be much every facet of life recently,
which is what we're updating. So let's update it.
Two major Neo-Nazi music concerts will be held in France and Italy over the coming week.
So that's long gone. Long gone.
And what extremism experts are warning will be a significant networking and fundraising event
for the European extreme right.
French concert Call of Terror is scheduled to be held in an unannounced location in the
southeastern Auvergne-Rhone-Alps region. They called it a...
Yeah. Sorry. Can you say it again? Just so that I'm sure.
Call of Terror. Okay, Call of Terror. Okay.
It really sounds like a death metal concert, does it not?
It sounds like they're plotting a terrorist attack.
A little bit of that as well. Like how I go with metal.
You go with terrorist attack.
February 24th, while an Italian gig called Hot Shower will be held somewhere in Northern
Italy three weeks later. The event marks the return of the concerts built by their organizers
as festivals in both established fixtures in Europe's underground extreme right music scene.
The first time since they were interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.
The gigs will feature some...
I'm kind of surprised that the coronavirus could stop a Neo-Nazi...
No kidding. I would have to agree with you on that.
Gigs will feature some of the biggest names in the explicitly Neo-Nazi musical genre
known as National Socialist Black Metal or NSBM. Interesting. Okay, I was...
I have to look this up in hell.
Genres racist ideology is made clear on the poster for Hot Shower circulated on social media,
which features a cartoon rat winter from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wearing a Jewish
star of David along with a hooded clansman.
Oh, please stop comparing Jews to vermin. It's insulting to the vermin.
And quote read one comment beneath the poster on the gigs Facebook page.
Worston Hendricks, musicologist of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz,
who specializes in far right music subcultures told Vice News that the concerts are two of the
major events in Europe, Neo-Nazi musical underground.
Both festivals are of enormous importance for the international NSBM scene because they've
already established a certain tradition and because the lineups usually feature high caliber
Nazi bands. He said, this is disturbing.
At the lining call of terror, which is being held for the fifth time,
is veteran Polish band Graeblant described by Hendricks as one of the stars of the
international NSBM scene. Armed in war cloth in 1991, the group has had Alpen's band in Germany
and appears on an anti-difamation league list of hate music bands. Groups founder, who uses the
stage name Rob Darkin told an interviewer in 2006 that most people would describe his politics as a
stream right wing national socialist convictions. Other acts on the call of terror lineup include
Italian band SPQR, a phrase referring to the Roman Republic, which has been promoting its
appearances at the festival with its latest music video, which features footage of Ukrainian soldiers
in combat and is dedicated to far right Ukrainian fighting units, including Azaz Brigade.
There we go. Right sector in the Russian Volunteer Corps. Also on the bill was Polish NSN-SBM
band Atal, which like SPQR was very well known within the scene. France was known for having one
of the strongest and best network NSBM scenes in Europe alongside strongholds further east like
Poland, Ukraine and Russia. Wow. That goes on and on and on as Vice does. They're great for
reporting this stuff. I was feeling like an update because we've been covering the rise of Nazis.
The growing rise of Nazis. I believe we had an article. It was far right fight clubs. Yeah,
the fight clubs. We've covered it a few times, but I found not necessarily interesting, but there's
definitely a disturbing rise of it, which is absolutely bizarre to me. So that's my update
and where it took us today. Chelsea, I just have to let you know because I went down a whole while
you discussed this. There's a Wikipedia article on National Socialist Black Metal. This page has 110
citations. Oh my God. Sorry, 111 citations. And why black metal? And it references four different
books. White Noise and Black Metal in Black Sun, Aryan Cult, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of
Identity, Hail Loki, Hail Satan, Hail Hitler, Dark Side Assetrue, Satanism and Occult National
Socialism, Lords of Chaos, the Bloody Rise of Satanic Metal Underground, and I Am the Black
Wizard, Multiplacity, Mysticism and Identity in Black Metal Music and Culture. And this just seems
like there's another Wikipedia article too. And it's just a list of NSBM bands. By Black Metal,
this is bizarre. Yeah, part of it is the paganism, I think of it, and the fact that white supremacy
does lend itself to this type of music for some reason, just because heavy metal is kind of linked
to white supremacy. Interesting. Don't know why, and the paganism is a big thing here, and especially
in Europe, paganism's the huge thing behind it. It hit me off guard. I actually had no idea, but
we are learning new things on an update, feeling like an update. And Chelsea, I am actually surprised
that you're giving me info on Neo-Nazis that I didn't already know, because I tend to follow the
rise of this stuff fairly closely, and I had no idea about this. Yeah, there you go, and it's an old
update. So who knows, there may be an NSBM concert coming your way called Let's Get Rid of the Non-Whites,
just because apparently they're pretty blatant with their naming of these things.
Yeah, probably don't go to it. It's best not to give them your money. Yeah, no, I probably wouldn't,
even if you like black metal. But in the meantime, you've got 48 hours. Don't let the existential
dread of the implications of this story get you two down before then, because we've got Halloween
episodes to get to. Hey, they're fun in a scary kind of way. Thank you, now I'm excited. In a different
scary kind of way. Okay, see you Friday. Anyhow, bye.